Name three literary devices, what they are, and give an example of each.

Metaphor: when something is described AS something else, otherwise unrelated, “He had a stormy expression”Alliteration: a series of words, close together, with the same consonant sound, “withering wicked words”Simile: When something is described to be LIKE something else, “he was slippery as an eel, sly as a fox”.

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